Better The Devil You Know
Black Iris Brewery in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England 🏴
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Duke William, Lincoln. Clear golden colour with a white head. Aroma and taste are pine and sweet tropical fruit. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Hazy gold with a frothy white and a soft tropical and citrus fruit aroma. Smooth up front, fruity with a just a little hop kicj before a bittersweet finish
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hand-pulled pint at the Wrekin Inn on 20th July 2024. Golden body, almost clear, white crown. Mini citrus lead with a faint grapefruit feel. Grew on me as I sipped it.
McCash (16021) reviewed Better The Devil You Know from Black Iris Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On cask at the Stockbridge Tap. Appearance - golden with a light haze. Nice lacy head. Nose - orange and apple. Taste - more fruit salad notes. Some grape too. Palate - light to medium bodied and creamy. Decent taper on the finish. Overall - decent.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask at the Wellington, Brum. Pours gold with a small head. Aroma is piney hops. Taste is sticky. Grassy and piney hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask at Cheltenham Real Ale Festival 2017. Clear golden with a small frothy white head. Tropical and citrus on the nose. Taste is tropical fruits, grapefruit, citrus, light malt, moderate bitterness. Light body, quite thin/watery which is my only complaint about this beer, otherwise very nice.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask. Kelham Island Tavern, Sheffield. Pale, yellow gold. Light haze. Thick, sudsy, white head. Nose has lime and green gooseberry. Some peach stone. Bit of yellow melon. It’s at the bright and twangy end of the hop spectrum. Taste is sweet to start, turning bright and twangy bitter. Cleansing mouthfeel. Slightly drying. Long, light bitter close.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Cask at the Euston Tap, East Lodge, 13/04/17. Clear golden with a well appointed off white head. Nose is mellow citric fruits, bready notes, melon, tangerine. Taste comprises melon, orange peel, straw, soft bread, grains, pale malts. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, light hop bitterness in the close. Looks and feels good but all very pedestrian for a supposed IPA.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Better The Devil You Know from Black Iris Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Cask at Euston Tap West. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of fruity hops, grapefruit, tropical fruit bites and malt. Flavour is light moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Light medium bodied with very soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (handpump) @ Annie’s Burger Shack, 5 Broadway, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England NG1 1PR. [ As Black Iris Better the Devil You Know ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, biscuit malt, moderate hoppy, fruity hops. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, biscuit malt, fruity hops, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20151006] 6-3-6-3-13